Aby Gaye-Duparc is a curator at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, where she is organizing Ibrahim Mahama’s first exhibition in Paris (2026), following her work on the retrospective of textile artist Olga de Amaral (2024–2025). A PhD candidate in Art History at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), her research focuses on women artists in Senegal between the 1960s and 1990s, in the context of the establishment of a national art scene post-independence and the emergence of feminist and Pan-African movements.